Re^2: Unix deficiencies/problems

[Maarten Litmaath]

Kemp at DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
\...
\ /home/orion/jsmith/projectA/speech
\ /home/magellan/tjones/lib/splib.a

\With logical names, I could define the first as "joe" and the second as
\"splib", and do things like:

\ cd joe
\ ls joe
\ ar t splib
\ cc myprog -lsplib

Bourne shell:

	joe=/home/orion/jsmith/projectA/speech

	cd $joe
etc.
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